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Caillebotte often painted Parisian men and women on the street or in their homes. Here a lone male bather inhabits a private space, devoid of decoration. Caillebotte painted both male and female nudes, but this composition was among his most ambitious. The artist may have turned to the subject after acquiring some of Edgar Degas’s female bathers of the 1870s.

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By descent from the artist to the Chardeau family, Paris; 1967, sold by the Chardeau family to Bernard Lorenceau, Paris; 1967, sold by Lorenceau to a private collection, Switzerland; 2011, sold from this private collection to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 22, 2011)